Archive for category: Preoccupying

Silvia Federici is a New York-based scholar, teacher, and organiser. She is a professor emerita and teaching fellow at Hofstra University, where she previously worked as a social science professor following many years of teaching in Nigeria. Amongst her many roles, Federici co-founded the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and the […]

Selma James is an activist and a prolific writer on anti-racism and women’s rights, founder of the International Wages for Housework campaign, and current coordinator of Global Women’s Strike. The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, co-authored with Mariarosa Dalla Costa, launched the ‘domestic labour’ debate. It […]

Eleanor Saitta makes a living and a vocation of understanding how complex systems operate and redesigning them to work, or at least fail, better. Her focuses include the seamless integration of technology into the lived experience, the humanity of objects and the built environment, and systemic resilience and conviviality. Eleanor undertakes […]

David Harvey writes extensively on Marxist geography and the political economy and is the author of a number of books, including The Urbanization of Capital, Rebel Cities, and The Enigma of Capital. He is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New […]

Michael Hardt has combined his role as Professor of Literature and Italian at Duke University with political writings and activism. Together with the Italian Marxist Antonio Negri, he has produced an influential critique of our present time. Their trilogy of books – titled “Empire”, “Multitude”, and “Commonwealth” – have been described […]

Since 2008, the latest crisis of capitalism has given birth to a new wave of horizontal and collective forms of organising in the United States: The occupation of the State Capitol of Wisconsin in early 2011 in opposition to Governor Scott Walker’s plan to drastically reduce collective bargaining rights. The […]

Alan Moore is a writer and anarchist, and the author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta. Having written for us back in January, Moore returns to the OT to discuss anarchy, war, and the roots of the modern education system. OT: Having previously suggested that many of the problems humanity faces […]

McKenzie Wark is a writer and teacher interested in media theory and new media, whose works include ‘A Hacker Manifesto’ and ‘The Beach Beneath the Street’. Having visited Occupy sites in the US and Australia he describes the movement as a ‘weird global media event’. His writing on Occupy features […]

John Holloway is a philosopher, lawyer, Marxist-oriented sociologist and author of numerous books including ‘Change the World Without Taking Power’, ‘Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism’ and ‘Crack Capitalism’. John has lived in Mexico since 1991, and his work is associated with the Zapatista movement. He currently teaches at […]

Dan Hind is the author of ‘Return of the Public‘ and ‘The Threat to Reason‘ and a member of Tax Justice Network. In his latest work, ‘Common Sense: Occupation, Assembly and the Future of Liberty‘, Dan posits the end of an era dominated by markets and experts, suggesting public assemblies […]